Eleanor Henderson, EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS: A Marriage

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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"One of the things that I was working through in my life and in this book was recognizing that I couldn't keep somebody else alive. That was hard to accept." Zibby is joined by Eleanor Henderson, author of the visceral memoir, Everything I Have Is Yours, to talk about the painful reality of caring for a loved one who's suffering from an undiagnosable condition. Eleanor shares the ways in which her fiction writing prepared her to discuss her personal life and why she loves reading books that break her heart.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
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0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Eleanor Henderson is the author of Everything I Have is Yours, a marriage. Eleanor grew up in Florida and attended Middlebury
0:44.5	College and the University of Virginia, where she earned her MFA. She is the author of two novels,
0:49.7	The Twelve Miles Straight and Ten Thousand Saints, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York
0:55.5	Times and was a finalist for the award for first fiction from the Los Angeles Times. Her stories
1:00.3	and essays have appeared in publications including Agney, Ninth Letter, The New York Times, the Wall
1:05.3	Street Journal, poets and writers, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Best American Short
1:09.5	Stories. With Anna Solomon,
1:11.2	she is also co-editor of Labor Day, True Birth Stories by today's Best Women Writers.
1:16.3	Oh gosh, I'd never even talk to her about that. Anyway, her memoir, Everything I Have is yours,
1:20.1	is published by Flatiron, and she is also the chair of the writing department and the
1:24.3	Robert Ryan Professor in the Humanities at I Ithaca College where she lives right now with
1:29.1	her husband and two cents. Welcome, Eleanor. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't have time
1:34.0	to read books to discuss everything I have is yours. Thank you. By the way, I loved how on Instagram
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